Dragon’s Blood
#b84048
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b84048
RGB
184, 64, 72
OKLCh
54.2% 0.155 20.1°
CIELAB (D50)
45.3, 49.6, 23.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.2; on black, Lc -25.5. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 30.6 and 37.1 and 47.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.87:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b84048
protanopia
#595949 · ΔE00 30.6
deuteranopia
#757542 · ΔE00 37.1
tritanopia
#8c8c00 · ΔE00 47.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChinese Safflower at ΔE00 0.447: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chinese SafflowerΔE00 0.447 · #b94047
- PomegranateΔE00 1.01 · #b53d45
- Precious PeonyΔE00 1.089 · #bd4048
- Winterberry FrostΔE00 1.555 · #b4474d
- Intrigue RedΔE00 1.654 · #b24648
- Fire-Breathing DragonΔE00 1.77 · #bf3747
- Dusty RedΔE00 1.788 · #b9484e
- Watermelon RedΔE00 1.815 · #bf4147
- PoppyΔE00 1.926 · #c23c47
- Striking RedΔE00 2.014 · #c03543
- Baked AppleΔE00 2.031 · #b34646
- LadybugΔE00 2.063 · #bd474e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.